We can never describe what we have not seen. The transformation of the philosophy of the mind requires that the phenomena of consciousness be approached without conjecture. There are many would-be heroes and leaders among us, and we have more means than ever before for helping them to realize their potential. However, for the moment, we do not want heroes and leaders. In these mean, greedy times, we prefer coconspirators, and that is exactly what we have got. There is, then, no doubt that we can do better and indeed must do better. However, there is considerable doubt as to whether we want to, and so we are destined to drift on dreamlessly, secure in our fetish bondage scene of self-interest. We will be scattered, not into service, but into the emptiness of our lives where we will see ruin and barrenness, to know what internal death to God’s blessings mean. Until we have been through that experience, our faith is sustained only by feelings and by blessings. However, once we get there, no matter where God may place us or what inner emptiness we experience, we can praise God that all is well. That is what is meant by faith being exercise in the realities of life and laws of its connection being inductively established. #RandolphHarris 1 of 7

The aim of a science of mind is to arrive at a knowledge of the general laws of our constitution, which would correspond to Newtonian principles in physics and, like them, would make possible the deductive explanation of a great range of phenomena. Matter in motion stays in motion at a constant velocity when not acted upon by a force. The science of mind necessarily presupposed the principles of common sense. Our intuitive convictions about ourselves and about the World either possess the mechanisms that are necessary to know reality or one does not. Common sense in common usage means much the same as mother wit and is used not to refer to these intuitive convictions, but to the practical wisdom in everyday life. Moreover, the fundamental laws of human belief authorize these truths. I exist; I am the same person today that I was yesterday; the material World has an existence independent of my mind; the general laws of nature will continue, in future, to operate uniformly as in time past—no inference can be deduced, any more than from the intuitive truths prefixed to the heart of salvation. #RandolphHarris 2 of 7

The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it costs so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful humans merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. However, all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God. The veil was pulled back here to reveal that it cost Christ for us to become child of God. Christ’s agony was the basis for the simplicity of our salvation. Because of what the Son of Man went through, every human being has been provided with a way of access into the very presence of God. When you grow and develop the right condition inwardly, the words Jesus Christ spoke become so clear that you are amazed you did not grasp them before. In fact, you were not able to understand them before because you had not yet developed the proper spiritual condition to deal with them. God cannot reveal anything to us if we do not have His Spirit. However, our insensible thinking will end immediately one His resurrection life has its way with us. #RandolphHarris 3 of 7

Christ’s resurrection destiny—Has foreordained purpose—was to being many people to glory. The fulfilling of His destiny gives Him the right to make us sons and daughters of God. We never have exactly the same relationship to God that the Son of God has, but we are brought by the Son into the relation of sonship. Thank God for the glorious and majestic truth that His Spirit can work the very nature of Jesus Christ into us, if we will only obey Him. God’s laws inevitably carry with them the tacit consent of humankind, and the denial of any of them is quite unlike the repudiation of the stubbornest, most widespread prejudice: If we suspected that a person was seriously prepared to act on this denial, we would think he or she was losing his or her reason. Words in isolation often have no more significance than the letters composing them. Philosophers readily imagine that they have split up unitary acts of understanding into a complexity of related ideas when all they have done is something like parsing, mistaking grammatical elements of speech for ideas. #RandolphHarris 4 of 7

We think as well as speak by means of words, or at least by using signs of one sort or another, whenever our thinking contains any element of generality. We constantly need to have a watchfulness in a philosophical approach to the language we all employ in speaking of the mind. Its development from our ways of speaking about material things, the ease with which theories can be read off from the metaphors must be kept in view, and the theory-canceling variety and inconsistency of the metaphors. The substantival mind, the soul, oneself, is not something which we introspectively conscious; our knowledge of it is wholly relative, derived from the phenomena of consciousness which refer themselves to it as their subject. We have the same sort of knowledge of material substance. Any proposal to substitute a physiological for an introspective psychology (supported by wide study of the diverse manifestations of human life) strikes at the foundation of the human mind. Many people who have never seen Jesus Christ have received and share in God’s grace. However, once you have seen Him, you can never be the same. Other things will not have the appeal they did before. #RandolphHarris 5 of 7

The immateriality of the mind, which is involved in the only conceptions of matter and mind that we are capable of forming has an important place among the considerations that should lead us to expect life after death. It establishes a presumption of immortality, and it enables us to counter objections to the possibility of an existence apart from the body. Have you made the following decision about sin—that it must be completely removed from you? It takes a long time to come to the point of making this complete and effective decision about sin. It is, however, the greatest moment in your life once you decide that sin must no longer be about of your life—not simply be restrained, suppressed, or counteracted, but crucified—just as Jesus Christ died for the sin of the World. We should no longer be slaves of sin. Experience shows, our nature is adapted to the nature of things. There are tendencies deeply established without our nature which require a future life for their realization. My part is to walk in the light and to obey all that Christ reveals to me. The light of Christ illumines the dank cellar of our human condition.   #RandolphHarris 6 of 7

God accounts for the causation of figures. Physical causation, in terms merely constant conjunction. However, since every change must be the result of real agency, and since will alone is capable of this, we are obliged to infer from changes in the physical World the universal agency of God. We are our self-determining, and therefore morally responsible, agents. The irreducible notions of the right and wrong may be ascribed legitimately but not very illuminatingly to reason or to a moral sense. What matters in a recognition of the objectivity of right and wrong. The substantial universality of moral principles will be discerned when it is realized that the same principle can govern different conduct in different circumstances or where speculative opinions differ. After the decision to be identified with Jesus Christ in His death has been made, the resurrection life of Christ penetrates every bit of my human nature. It takes the omnipotence of God—His complete and effective divinity—to live the life of the Son of God in human flesh. That Holy Spirit cannot be accepted as a guest in merely one room of the house—He invades all of it. #RandolphHarris 7 of 7